Chris Onesto (@thisisonesto) has been bringing his concise and artful takes on plugins, production, and creative inspiration to a growing audience of music makers. From “Producer Pep Talks” to “Steal These Stems” Onesto’s approach brings viewers inside a process or a product—effortlessly illuminating their most unique and powerful uses. A longtime friend of Output, we reached out and asked him to share some of his favorite tips and tricks about producing music with Arcade.

Chop, Flip, and Reverse Samples Using Arcade’s Modifiers

Use this technique to warp an existing sample into something completely new. 

Arcade’s Modifiers combine multiple production processes into simple, playable effects. There are three main types: Playhead changes the start point, Repeater repeats and reverses, and Resequence slices and reorders. In this video, Onesto demonstrates how each of the three Modifiers works and breaks down his process for recording and resampling.

Quickly Add Ear Candy to Your Tracks

Try this production technique to finish a track, find inspiration, or add definition to your sound. 

Sonic flourishes and clever details (a.k.a. ear candy) bring a track to life. Here, Onesto demonstrates this Arcade superpower by showing off how he builds a custom kit and uses it to elevate a static synth progression.

Hook an Audience with Arcade’s Arpeggiator

Use Arcade’s arpeggiator to easily create layered textures and polyrhythmic patterns.  

Arpeggiators add motion, interest and rhythm to a static note. In this video, Onesto demonstrates how using randomization in Arcade’s Arpeggiator can inspire new melodic and harmonic ideas. He dives into the tool’s unique “Add Sequence” feature, which allows you to string together patterns of different lengths and tempos into one loop, and shows you how to take finely-tuned arp patterns from other Instruments in Arcade and use them in your own kits.

These are just a few of the ways Arcade can help bring new ideas to life. From starting a sketch to finishing a track, Arcade makes it easy to stay inspired. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more videos like this, and make sure to keep up with Onesto.